Frustr8

You really need to, weighing so often will tie you in "nots" and they biggest is I'M NOT LOSING! You lose in fits and spurts, not smooth like glass. Just the way it is, no use raging against it.

And next year for the 31st, just think what a Foxy Lady you will be!

And just think what a Foxy Lady you will be for the 31st, some people may not recognize you once your Fat Shell cracks and then disappears! Keep that in mind on the rough or stalling days. You are literally remaking You and that is a wonderful thing!

And new people where are you located? Give us a shout-out wherever You Are!

Thank you mousecat, I never played the video until today, it is very good. For some reason I only had the audio but I still liked the presentation very much.

You can't start a new chapter of your life by rereading the past ones, step forward in faith and just go ahead and do it! We will be here cheering you on!

Has anyone had one of those mini-lifts the Skin Place advertises on TV, they show you. supposedly 60 year old women that look 40 on a very good day. The doctor they highlight is Dr Fernando Colon, he does look handsome but does he make others look pretty too?

Think of them as pauses instead, your body is regrouping before it loses more weight, they don't last forever but it sure feels like they do. And often while it's seems like your weight is going nowhere you may still lose inches, and that is also a Good Thing.

And there will be nay-sayers, doubters, people trying their best to bring you down and there yYou will be, proving all of them wrong. Because now in life's journey you are a Winner and they don't matter anymore.

Good Girl, to your own self be true, at the end of the day, You and only,you are the one to please.

Why thank you very much. Maybe I just don't accept that I can be a failure, and I can make a stand for those of my generation. Nobody should be counted out for being younger or older, when we come to the realization "I cannot live like this" it should be honored for the strong step it is!

If they have a dedicated wing you might be fine, every time I go to my community hospital I end up doing a tutorial, they don't know what to make of a bypass patient, makes me feel like a purple-spotted giraffe everybody flocks to the zoo to see. So I go there for minor type things like IVs , that they can't mess up too badly.😛LOL

Fairlife milk is very good so I would see no reason these shakes would not be also.

I was told your body can only digest and assimilate 30 grams at a time, that's why protein shakes have that amount, so see people with degrees don't always agree. I have written so many poems, even my statements tend to rhyme, don't they?😛📝

And mine also, trusting she will be. strong enough for this challenge!👼🙏

And keep chanting " This too shall pass", yeah it sounds silly but sometimes it helps!

Well Good for you, and we will look forward to hearing updates as you go along toward recovery.

Did you notice, even unsweetened applesauce tastes sweet now? And I also like sugar free pudding even though Tomkitten are my entire bowl of pistachio before I could get to it. But I forgave him, I've another box anyway, he said " But I was Hungry!" Duhh, didn't figure he would eat it if he wasn't.

Well the cat🐱 is looking out for your best interests (as well as her own) we would not want you foundering on Too Much 🐟 after all. And you do have a diet partner there!

And the future is Much more Sunny than the Gloom and What- ifs our pasts, now you are I Can, I Will and I Shall, 3 "I's " to keep in Your future. Stay Strong, You Will Make It!

I'll know more Friday when my next Endoscopy is scheduled, thought for awhile I was getting a whole lot better, but urped up Friday and Saturday again as well as a little on the first liquid ( propel) I drank this morning. My bariatric staff says I am wrong, but I feel like a Gastric cripple, I get tired hearing " Be patient, you're still healing , albeit slow and steady!" I have never really stalled, but the TPN has slowed me to a pound or 2 a month, but I am assured I am much healthier than when I was hospitalized in Late November and had my PICC line installed. I had dropped 15 pounds, dehydrated and deficient of protein, so yes I am better, got a sparkle back in my eyes, but my impatience also returned. I want healed, I want it RIGHT NOW, and that's just not reasonable in the long run. But I am in this struggle to win this struggle, I am not stopping now until it is completed. And there may still be people I can help by my example, and that would be Uber-Cool!

So you Northern cousins jump through provincial hoops, we jump through insurance ones, and unless you are wealthy enough to self-pay, that's just the way things go. Neither are totally perfect but we fulfill to receive.

I just might try some, thank you Fluffy Grandma for the tip. I have been on a basically liquid with a few purees almost from the beginning because of my stricture and ulcerations, and drinking gets boring after 4.5 months, someday things will be better , I will go back to oral feeding instead of my TPN, I still can have a little by mouth and usually fluids. Thanks again.

Do you remember where you were before your surgery? Do you want to be back there again? I'm a relative newbee, only 4.5 months out but I surely don't want to regress, it was not a happy place for me. Now you were once a success, look how far you came, you k,ow the right steps to take. Like one of the branches of military service, your mantra needs to be "eternal vigilance" , yeah it would be easy to back-slide, but it is going down a slippery slope, once you land in the pit of despair it is difficult to climb out again. Remember all the things weight kept you from doing, the things I hope myself to do someday. No more stuck in seats, having to someone else hoist you to your feet, not sitting in airplane seats witout extenders, not being able to ride amusement park rides, doing things without huffing, puffing or having to sit down halfway through an activity. Many of these I haven't achieved myself but I am working hard to get there. And I will need someone to encourage me, maybe YOU are that person, don't fail me now but most of all Don't Fail Yourself. I will be watching to see good reports from YOU because I believe you will keep your life going forward. 😛Your Friend Frustr8

You know what I would like today- know I can't have it - Martin Luther King Weekend- no public transportation in my beknightened locale- collard or mustard greens in pot liquor, a little ham either real or Turkey to flavor it. Been on liquids and purees too long, my mind is "writing checks" my body and especially Precious Pouch refuse to cash. I'm still not quite as bad as my Brittle Diabetic friend Ellis. Told me one day " As soon as my sugar levels stabilise I'm gonna get a giant sundae with hot Fudge, whipped cream and a Maraschino cherry!" All I could think to retort was " And won't THAT do you a world of Good!" Blood sugar of 500-600 and THIS TIME you might not live through it! Someday I Shall have my greens , a piece of corn bread 2 inches square, and I'll Keep it all down. You got to have a dream, if you don't got a dream, how ya gonna have a dream come true? That's Bloody Mary's song from South Pacific, in case anyone wants to know. I have so much music in my head that sometimes it bursts forth!🎼🎶